A level set based algorithm to reconstruct the urinary bladder from multiple views

• Author(s): Zhen Ma ; Renato Natal Jorge ; T. Mascarenhas ; João Manuel R. S. Tavares
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/69871
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências Tecnológicas
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The urinary bladder can be visualized from different views by imaging facilities such as Computerized Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Multi-view imaging can present more details of this pelvic organ and contribute to a more reliable reconstruction. Based on the information from multi-view planes, a level set based algorithm is proposed to reconstruct the 3D shape of the bladder using the cross-sectional boundaries. The algorithm provides a flexible solution to handle the discrepancies from different view planes and can obtain an accurate bladder surface with more geometric details.